Complete issue 10:1 as one pdf - TUG

TUGboat, Volume 10 (1989), No. 1
16. PostScript fonts can be extended so that arbitrary
PostScript procedures can be executed in
place of certain character codes.
17. The inclusion of PostScript figures in 7&X
documents is possible with macros of the psfig
macro package.
18. Figures generated with tpic can be included
into a document.
19. X Window screen dumps (X11.3) can be included
into a rn document.
An Overview
The data flow diagram contains an overview of the
T)QQS Software Package. Observe that this figure
contains as subdiagram the flow of information when
generating fonts with METAFONT and processing a
document by rn using METAFONT based fonts.
The left side of the figure shows the programs
added by 7JJKpS. The pfd2tfm program generates
TFM files from AFM files and PFD files. PFD files
contain, for instance, encoding vector specifications.
The resulting TFM files are read in by rn to
produce a document with PostScript fonts.
The
pfd2tfm program may read in TFM files itself for the
purpose of font emulation. The pfd2tfm program
also produces PDR files which are read in by dvitps.
These PDR files contain width information and
encoding vector information which is needed by
dvitps.
Observe also that tpic can be used with our
dvitps. tpic generates a TEX source code file which
in turn generates \specials which are included into
the DVI file.
Finally with the help of the psfig macros, Post-
Script based figures generated by some program
X.. . PS can be included into a rn document.
Such a program should but does not need to
generate a bounding box comment in its Postscript
output which is read in by the psfig macros to
reserve the proper space in the TkX document. The
rest of the PostScript file is discarded by W, and
only read in by dvitps.
PRO files mentioned in the figure are prologue
files which contain certain standard PostScript definitions
read in by dvitps.
Availability
The software of the TEX@~ package consists of the
following parts:
1. Source code for the three basic programs dvitps,
pfd2tfm and printpdr.
2. The I4m source of a 150 page document
describing the software.
3. Manual pages.
4. The basic set of AFM files needed to produce
the corresponding TFM and PDR files.
5. The sources of pltotf (needed by pfd2tfm) and
of maketd, a program to compute dependencies
of C program sources.
The software is made available in the following two
ways:
1. Use ftp to the machine csseq. tamu. edu and
retrieve the file dvitps. tar. Z from there.
2. Send $80.00 ($110.00 outside the continental
US, shipped air mail) to Stephan v. Bechtolsheim,
2119 Old Oak Drive, West Lafayette, IN
47906 and you will receive a SUN cartridge
plus a complete set of the documentation.
Acknowledgements
The software was developed by the author as part of
a consulting contract with the Menil Foundation in
Houston, Texas. It was a combined decision by the
author of this software and the Menil Foundation to
make this software available to the community
at large.
My email address is svb@cssun . t amu . edu. Feel
free to contact me for further information.